Each of us has 24 hours every day. No matter how well we manage it, it still adds up to 24 hours.
So, instead of managing time, we need to manage our activities – what we do in those 24 hours. In this post, I'll focus on how to be more productive in the workplace.
Here is what effective managers do to improve their productivity.
Is your day filled with urgent requests – this must get done now? But are these requests important? Will they help you achieve the goals of your boss, your team, your department? Having clear priorities will help you know what to say yes to and what to say no to.
2. Analyze your "to-do" list.
Every day ask these three questions. (1) What would happen if I don't do this at all? If the answer is nothing, stop doing it! (2) Will this activity move me closer to achieving my critical priorities? If the answer is no, don't do it! (3) Can this be delegated? If yes, assign it!
Pick your most creative time of day and then ring a fence around it. This means setting a block of time when you're unavailable or not responding immediately to email. What's the worst thing that can happen? What's the best thing?
Starting today cut all meeting times by 25 percent. It can be done! Every meeting, even 10 minute ones, should have an agenda with times, tasks, people and actions. Use the agenda as a tool to control discussion and decision making.
5. Do a quick review.
After putting out the fire, go one step further and analyze the crisis. Ask yourself and your team: Is there a pattern here; why did it occur; what can we have done to avoid it? Then take actions prevent it from happening again.
The enemy out there (an unexpected crisis, others not meeting deadlines).
The enemy within (poor planning, procrastination, lack of assertiveness).
What causes you the most grief? How are you going to deal with it?
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Since then, WordPress has grown into a complete website-building platform- both from the features built into the WordPress core and the plugins that expand its functionality. With plugins such as Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce you can create an online retail store. With plugins such as LifterLMS you can create an online school. With themes such as Divi or plugins such as Elementor and Beaver Builder you can build any type of layout you want. New features can be added with plugins or code.
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New Clause 8: Exempted Provisions (30 Apr 1971)
Mr Norman Fowler: I gather that the point of the hon. Lady's attempted intervention is that the public would not readily recognise the names she sought to quote from HANSARD. "Faceless" carries with it a rather emotive implication and suggests to many people that the cigarette manufacturers are inaccessible, that they are not responsible, and that they cannot be held to account. The word perhaps suggests...
Mr Norman Fowler: I would have thought that the Government had every access to them. I would also have thought that hon. Members would have access to them if they chose to tread the path. I do not want to press this point because I do not believe that anybody could reasonably accept the hon. Lady's emotive charge implicit in her description of these men as "faceless moguls".
Mr Norman Fowler: That is perhaps a point for the hon. Member for Halifax. I cannot make charges against the hon. Lady and at the same time answer for her.
Mr Norman Fowler: I must say that that is the most extraordinary definition of non- entities that I have ever heard. It seems to me that the hon. Lady is using words and is then making up her own definitions of those words. It happens that 99 per cent. of the people who read those words will not come to the same conclusion as she does, which is a pity. However, I do not want to go down this particular by-way...
Mr Norman Fowler: I am grateful for the intervention of the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro).
Mr Norman Fowler: I readily accept that correction. He mentions that there will be a third day for debate. I only point out that if I am interrupted much more it is likely that I shall still be speaking on the third day. I have suggested that a voluntary agreement is not ineffective by definition. Therefore, the next point seems to me to be whether it is an agreement which is made between two responsible...
Mr Norman Fowler: No, I am not. I do not think that is a particularly acute point, if I may say so. Even those who have a conspiracy theory of the world should recognise that there is also a practical point about the numbers of cigarette manufacturers in this country with whom one has to have an agreement. There are only three major groups. That again, I would have thought, was a good reason for supporting a...
Mr Norman Fowler: I do not rule out that legislation may be possible in the future, but I am certain that the House would be wise to avoid a long succession of Acts dealing with tobacco smoking. Timing is of the essence. This Bill, and the voluntary agreement, cover one part of the action which may be taken to reduce smoking, but by no stretch of the imagination are they the last word. We do not expect the...
Orders of the Day — Unsolicited Goods and Services Bill: Unsolicited Publications (7 May 1971)
Mr Norman Fowler: I started by supporting the Amendments, but as the morning has progressed I have become more doubtful. I am particularly concerned about the point first raised by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Solihull (Mr. Grieve) on the advertising material and the way in which it can be caught. I have been approached by constituents who have received the kind of leaflet that has been referred...
Mr Norman Fowler: I do not know the exact extent of the activities of the Julian Press, but, from what has been said this morning, it is clear that the company has no intention of desisting from its policy and seems to have started a new propaganda campaign for its pornography.
Mr Norman Fowler: I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I have the leaflet that was sent to my constituent, and I imagine it to be the same as that sent to him. Under the guise of trying to help married couples, the leaflet contains words and implication intended to attract a completely different reader. The words that it uses all lead to the conclusion that they are trying to attract not a serious audience but a...
Mr Norman Fowler: My hon. Friend has the advantage of me if he has seen the book to which the leaflet refers. The simple pointing out of the hypocrisy of the advertising will not cause an increase in sales of the book. There is a necessity for the Bill to cover that kind of advertising material. That is where my concern lies.
Mr Norman Fowler: I am grateful for that guidance upon the contents of the book. When the Minister has finished reading it, perhaps I could glance at it as well. But this is a well-known advertising technique. These days one sees advertisements for theatre shows such as "Oh Calcutta", which are far more likely to bore rather than to corrupt. I do not want to make light of this. It is not a matter which should...
Mr Norman Fowler: My hon. Friend intervenes to mention the moors murder. Indeed there were several studies on that murder which came to that conclusion. To those who say that these books can have no effect, I reply that if they read one of these studies which have been carried out, there can be no doubt whatever about the very real and harmful effect such books can have. All this leads me to conclude and to...
Mr Norman Fowler: My hon. Friend has raised a very good point. It is not unknown for mailing lists aimed at this country to be organised from other parts of Europe or even the United States.
Mr Norman Fowler: I do not want to deal with that point on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich, (Mr. Money), but I appreciate what my hon. Friend the Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. MacArthur) says. I think that it was right of my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich to raise this point, because it is at this stage that we may be able to do something about it.
Mr Norman Fowler: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that assurance. I hope that it will be noted. My object in raising these issues in this debate has been to show my concern, which has been increased rather than diminished as the debate has progressed, to see that advertising leaflets which themselves may not describe or illustrate sexual techniques but which advertise books which do just that will be...
Mr Norman Fowler: I suggest that that is more a criticism of the law as it now stands than of the actions of the Director of Public Prosecutions, who interprets the law and decides on the likelihood of a prosecution succeeding. I think that any provision which leads to consistency in our prosecuting policy will be a positive advantage. I do not think that it will result in frivolous and unnecessary...
Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Probation Officers (Pay) (20 May 1971)
Mr Norman Fowler: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will now make a statement on an increase in salaries for probation officers.
Mr Norman Fowler: I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Does he agree that a strong probation service is a vital factor in the Government's plans to tackle crime? Many probation officers regard this offer as sadly inadequate. In view of the importance of a strong probation service, will my right hon. Friend consider setting up an independent inquiry into the conditions and pay of the probation service?
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ABOUT 55,000 people call the city home, but 70,000 tourists pour into the streets every day. The locals are well and truly fed-up.
Walk through Poveglia island which is located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon in northern Italy and it is considered one of the world's most haunted islands.
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Fairfield University Art Museum establishes fund to diversify its permanent collection
Connecticut Public Radio | By Ray Hardman
Published December 2, 2021 at 11:49 AM EST
Fairfield University Art Museum
Roberto Visani's "Cardboard Slave Kit, Abolitionist Blend DIY," is one of the Fairfield University Art Museum's newest acquisitions.
The Fairfield University Art Museum has announced its two newest acquisitions. The works were purchased using money from a new fund that aims to add the work of contemporary Black artists to the museum's collection.
Nearly all of the 2,000 pieces of art in the Fairfield University Art Museum were donated. Works by white, male artists dominate the collection.
Carey Weber, executive director of the museum and an expert in modern American art, said the 2020 murder of George Floyd by white police officers in Minneapolis was a wake-up call.
"I sat down with the staff, and we looked at our collection, and we looked at our exhibitions," said Weber. "We knew that we could do better diversifying the collection. Doing more exhibitions featuring Black artists and including Black artists in our exhibition program were two of the priorities we set for ourselves."
With seed money from the university, the art museum established the Black Art Fund to purchase new works by Black artists. Late last month, the museum announced its first two acquisitions: a ceramic work by Afro-Latino artist Roberto Lugo, and a work by Roberto Visani called Cardboard Slave Kit, Abolitionist Blend DIY. The 7-foot cardboard sculpture was inspired by the iconic anti-slavery medallion, "Am I not a man and a brother?" The university owns one of the medallions.
"We were just so pleased to have this synergy with a piece that is already in our collection. We leapt at the opportunity to buy that, so it's really, I think a wonderful object for a teaching museum," said Weber.
Visani's sculpture was inspired by Josiah Wedgwood's iconic abolitionist seal, "Am I not a man and a brother?"
The Fairfield University Art Museum is asking the public for financial contributions to the Black Art Fund as well as donations of museum-quality works by Black artists.
An exhibition of ceramics by Roberto Lugo is on view at the art museum, or it can be viewed online at https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/robertolugo/.
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The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band has announced that its new studio album -- How I Go -- will be released Aug. 2 by Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud Records.
This is the band's first studio album since signing with Roadrunner/Loud & Proud last year; it follows the release of the Grammy-nominated Live! In Chicago.
Recorded in Sausalito, California's Studio D and produced by Shepherd and his longtime collaborator and producer Jerry Harrison, How I Go signals the band's return to the studio. With the help of co-writers Mark Selby and Tia Sellers ("Blue on Black"), as well as Zac Maloy and Danny Tate, the new album offers a bounty of new material as well as covers of Albert King, Bessie Smith and the Beatles.
How I Go offers a blues-infused collection of music by Shepherd and his band, which includes Noah Hunt, Chris Layton and Riley Osbourn, plus special guest Tommy Shannon.
"We poured our hearts and souls into the recording of How I Go," Shepherd said. "My goal was to give longtime fans exactly what they want to hear on one of my records, while providing new fans an opportunity to experience my brand of blues-based rock. I'm certain music lovers will clearly hear our musical roots while experiencing the growth and emotion that this record represents." The band is planning a United States tour to begin in July.
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Michael Jackson's Posthumous Album, 'Xscape,' Is a Confused, Shameless Money Grab
Sony paid the Michael Jackson estate a quarter of a billion dollars for the rights to the King of Pop's unreleased music. Now it's our turn to pay.
Andrew Romano
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 3:26PM ET / Published May. 13, 2014 1:21AM ET
The cover of Michael Jackson's "new" album Xscape is revealing. I don't mean that it's literally revealing—quite the opposite, actually. In the picture, the lower half of Jackson's face is shrouded by some sort of intergalactic collar—a futuristic mesh fraise that rises up from his clavicle and eventually culminates in a silvery Saturnic ring encircling his entire noggin.
Conveniently enough, the collar happens to hide all the bad bits. No more pinched lips. No more cleft chin. No more blocky jawline. No more angular cheekbones. And certainly no nose—the collar's metallic rim is tilted just so, blocking that terrible, cartilaginous void from view. In the end, all we're left with are Jackson's big, sad eyes—the one part of him that always remained recognizably Michael.
But that's the revealing thing about the Xscape cover: what it obscures. I can't help but see it as a metaphor for the album as a whole.
Xscape is the second Jackson disc assembled by Sony since the artist's death in 2009; the first was 2010's Michael. But unlike MJ's previous posthumous release—10 songs that Jackson wrote, recorded, and reworked from 2007 to 2009 but never got around to releasing—Xscape doesn't have anything fresh to offer. It's not a glimpse of what Jackson was working on post-Invincible (2001), his last studio LP. Nor is it a collection of archival ephemera and outtakes, like the Beatles's Anthology. Instead, it's something else entirely: a meager batch of pre-1999 scraps and stray demos selected by Epic Records boss L.A Reid to be "contemporized"—read: inflated, balloon-like, into something that will sell—by Timbaland, Stargate, Rodney Jerkins, John McClain, J-Roc, and various other producers.
In other words, Xscape is a product—and that's exactly what it sounds like. I don't have any problem with posthumous LPs. When an artist dies, he dies. He's not around to have intentions anymore, or to suffer when his most embarrassing effluences are made public, so what he may or may not have wanted when he was alive—again, which he's not—is no longer particularly relevant. Unless an artist explicitly prohibits something from ever seeing the light of day, I say it's fair game. Any material that enriches or enlivens our understanding of a dear departed genius like, say, Michael Jackson, is well worth whatever discomfort its exposure is not causing his corpse.
The key, however, is that it's the artist's legacy that's being enriched—not just his record label. Xscape doesn't come close to clearing that bar. In fact, it actively works to obscure the material Jackson left behind. As a result, it winds up obscuring Jackson himself.
Don't get me wrong. Some of Xscape's tracks are actually pretty strong. Despite a tepid demo vocal, "Love Never Felt So Good," a 1983 collaboration between MJ and Paul "My Way" Anka, coheres after a few spins into exuberant disco-soul earworm. It wouldn't have fit on Thriller or Bad, but Off the Wall? Totally. "Loving You," meanwhile, is ingeniously constructed out of one jazzy, swooping key change after another—a maneuver worthy of the great Marvin Gaye. "Slave to the Rhythm"—an ode to the working woman—is Jackson at his socially-conscious best; Timbaland's skittering beat neatly complements the singer's staccato syllables about an inner-city Lady Madonna who "dances in the sheets at night / dances to his needs," then "dances at the crack of dawn / and quickly cooks his food."
Other songs aren't so successful. "A Place With No Name," Jackson's shuffling rewrite of America's "A Horse with No Name," is aimless and flat. "Do You Know Where Your Children Are"—an impassioned ballad in part about a young girl who was sexually abused by her stepfather—seems ill-advised. The title track is downright unsettling. "I tried to share my life with someone I could love," Jackson sings, his voice almost disintegrating with anger and paranoia. "But games and money were all she ever thought of. How could that be my fault when she gambled and lost?" And most of the contemporization sounds like what it is—an ostentatious, slightly ill-fitting suit slipped onto a stiff.
But ultimately the problem with Xscape isn't the particulars of its production, or even the fact that its mediocre songs outnumber its better-than-mediocre ones. It's Sony's entire approach to the project. Half of Jackson's genius was creative: his ear for a hook, his ability to arrange an entire song in his head, his expressive, elastic voice. But the other half was editorial. Jackson was a perfectionist, and as he wrote in his autobiography, Moonwalk, "a perfectionist has to take his time; he shapes and he moulds and he sculpts that thing until it's perfect. He can't let it go before he's satisfied; he can't. If it's not right, you throw it away and do it over. You work that thing 'til it's right. When it's as perfect as you can make it, you put it out there."
There's a reason it took Jackson 30 years to release his seven mature solo albums, from Off the Wall to Michael. He was working those things 'til they were right. There's also a reason those seven LPs sold more than 180 million copies combined—a per-album average that will never be equaled. The reason, of course, was Jackson's perfectionism: his penchant, as collaborator Will.i.am recently recalled, for being "very critical about every single detail"—for standing "in the studio himself, mastering and mixing everything."
When you do what Sony has done—when you substitute Timbaland's perfectionism for Jackson's—you don't just wind up with less Jackson than Jackson would've liked. You wind up with less Jackson than you started with. It's like taking a dead writer's unfinished novel and hiring another writer to transform it into a bestseller. Just release the unfinished novel. The stuff an artist refuses to show the world can be as revealing as the stuff he puts out there, but if you start gumming it up with other people's polish, the artist himself becomes harder to see. Just like Jackson's face on the cover of Xscape—plastic surgery and all.
So what should Sony have done with Xscape? They should've given us Jackson's original demos, raw and uncontemporized. (Right now, those recordings are only available if you purchase the pricier "deluxe edition" of the album.) But alas—Sony paid the Jackson estate a quarter of a billion dollars for the rights to MJ's unreleased music. They have to recoup their costs somehow, don't they? And what about their Xperia smartphones? Those need to be promoted. Plus there are a lot of PlayStation owners out there. Might as well reward them with an exclusive behind-the-scenes video on the making of the album, you know?
At the end of the day, Sony decided that their phones and gaming consoles—not to mention their balance sheet—would be better served by the throbbing Timbaland version of "Loving You" than the gentler homemade production Jackson left behind when he died. Too bad Jackson isn't better served by it, too.


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HP LaserJet 1300 Review
by Eric Grevstad
With color inkjet printers offering ever more speed and quality and monochrome lasers starting at under $200, where does a $399 laser fit in? If it's HP's newest LaserJet, any corner of your desk — where it offers hard-to-fault connectivity, expandability, and clear, speedy printing capabilities.
At least twice a year, a hit movie or TV show turns some actor or actress into an "overnight star" — usually, it turns out, after the performer has been working hard for a decade or more. And at least twice a year, some big tech company like Microsoft or IBM "discovers" the small-to-medium business (SMB) or small-office/home-office (SOHO) market, announcing a splashy initiative to serve customers who fall short of the Fortune 500 enterprise but who need more powerful tools than home-PC-puttering families and kids.
This month's example — at least in hardware marketing, though you'll also be seeing a lot of Hilary Duff and Hugo Weaving — is HP, which has launched everything from an SMB-oriented, online Imaging & Printing Expertise Center to a new crop of monochrome laser printers positioned between entry-level mini-models and 10- or 20-employee workhorses.
At first glance, the LaserJet 1300 looks just like the model 1200 it replaces at the same $399 price — or, for that matter, like the LaserJet 1000 personal printer introduced 18 months ago at $249 and now selling for $199. All are small enough (about 16 by 19 by 10 inches and 19 pounds) to put on a corner of your desk instead of a separate printer stand, though a bit noisy to put right by your telephone.
But while the 1000 produced text at 10 pages per minute, the new 1300 doubles that to a rated speed of 20 ppm, with a 133MHz processor and 16MB of standard RAM doubling the specs of the 15-ppm LaserJet 1200. It also prints at up to 1,200 by 1,200 dpi resolution, instead of economy lasers' 600 by 600 (though realistically we consider the latter OK for business text documents). And its duty cycle is a sturdy 10,000 pages per month.
In addition to its built-in, 250-sheet paper tray (plus 10-sheet "priority input tray" for feeding letterhead or envelopes on top of the main drawer), it supports a second 250-sheet tray (a $230 option).
And while the $399 base model tested here has just USB and parallel ports, the $599 LaserJet 1300n replaces the latter with a 10/100Mbps Ethernet print server — still a more costly choice than a generic, external print server or simply sharing a printer attached to one (always-on) PC on an office network, but the $200 premium is more palatable than the $400 or more extra that some vendors charge for network-ready models.
The USB and parallel ports — the latter actually a plug-in module for the LIO slot used for the 1300n model's print server — are at the rear, along with a power switch (call us old-fashioned, but we like printers you can turn off without unplugging, unlike some of the cheapest lasers). Setup is simple, with a toner cartridge that almost literally falls into place behind the front panel.
The LaserJet 1300's standard toner cartridge is rated for 2,500 pages, with replacements costing $72 — that comes to just under 2.9 cents a page (not counting paper), which is far cheaper than your average inkjet printer, albeit about a penny more than midsized or larger monochrome lasers. You can trim the figure to 2.3 cents per page by opting for a 4,000-page cartridge priced at $92.
You can flip down a rear door for a straighter paper exit path, though both letterhead and cheap copier paper had no trouble making the U-turn from the paper drawer to their resting place on top of the printer in our tests. This face-down output conveniently leaves Page 1 of multipage documents on top when you remove them, but pages are prone to slide off the top of the stack well before the total reaches the claimed 125-sheet output capacity.
HP's PCL 6 software driver — there's a PostScript-compatible driver on the CD as well — provides a good choice of resize or fit-to-page, N-up (thumbnail or handout), manual duplexing, and watermark printing options, as well as an economy mode that promises to save toner but whose pages looked to our eyes too faint or pale gray for even in-house draft use.
You won't be surprised to hear that the LaserJet 1300 produced, well, laser-sharp text in big and small font sizes alike. A bit unusual for a laser printer, however, is the choice of resolution or speed-versus-quality settings in the driver: 600 by 600 dpi for quickest output; what HP calls FastRes (600 by 1,200 dpi) for most jobs; and ProRes (1,200 by 1,200 dpi, with your choice of 141 or 180 lines per inch) for fine graphics or photo images.
Since a laser print engine always runs at the same speed, the different quality settings don't make as big a difference in text-document times as comparable inkjet choices — our 20-page Microsoft Word document took 1 minute and 13 seconds at 600 dpi, and 1 minute and 14 seconds in FastRes mode, for example. But higher resolutions require more memory and can mean more pauses between pages (though you can minimize the latter by boosting the 16MB of onboard memory to as much as 80MB).
The different resolutions can have a visible effect on image quality; even the simple company logo in our one-page business letter looked nicer (with smoother filled areas) in ProRes than at 600 dpi (15 versus 13 seconds; even at the speedy setting, our print jobs never equaled HP's claimed 8 seconds first-page-out time).
Our 55-page Adobe Acrobat document's mixed text and graphics looked perfectly adequate at 600 by 600 dpi (4 minutes and 17 seconds), though noticeably nicer in in FastRes (just under seven minutes). And though we still can't imagine see anyone using a monochrome laser to show off 8 by 10-inch photos, our digital-camera print definitely looked better at 1,200 by 1,200 dpi than 600 by 600, although print time jumped from 34 seconds to triple that.
Overall, the LaserJet 1300 strikes us as a likable text-job workhorse at a reasonable price — solo workers willing to settle for smaller, non-expandable memory and paper capacity might choose a bargain $199 laser like Minolta-QMS' PagePro 1250W, but a growing business will be won over by HP's offering of a second paper tray and network-ready model. We wish the 1300 had automatic duplexing like the Lexmark T420d we tested in February, but it has higher resolution at a lower price. It may not be an overnight star, but it's a talented actor.
Adapted from HardwareCentral.com
This article was originally published on Monday Apr 28th 2003
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What Melania wore her 87th week as first lady, including to meet her Polish counterpart
While her husband was reportedly being held back from tweeting about his Supreme Court pick, first lady Melania Trump was showing off a fall look to meet with Poland's president and his wife at the White House. Other than that, Trump stayed out of the spotlight again — it was another week with just a single public sighting of the first lady.
That doesn't mean she was free from controversy, though. News broke Friday that Trump's spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, received a warning for violating federal law after she used her official government Twitter to send a partisan tweet. But that doesn't actually have anything to do with Trump's fashion, so let's talk about her look, shall we?
A Gucci coat to meet Poland's president and first lady
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet Polish President Andrzej Duda and first Agata Kornhauser-Duda on Tuesday at the White House in Washington, D.C.
The president and first lady hosted Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, at the White House on Tuesday. Trump sported a double-breasted, off-white wool coat from Gucci that retails for around $4,000. She paired the coat with black stilettos.
While a wool coat is obviously a great look for fall, it's a slightly confusing choice for the first lady, considering the weather in D.C. on Tuesday was reportedly a muggy 80 degrees. Perhaps the air conditioning in the Oval Office was turned up to full blast?
First lady Melania Trump listens as President Donald Trump meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.
That's all for this week, folks! Tune in next week for more Trump lewks.
You can read previous recaps of what Melania Trump wore here.


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Democrat Gabby Giffords got hammered last week by Arizona Daily Star reporter Daniel Scarpinato, who thoroughly dissected "Blocked," her TV spot boasting that she used a procedural maneuver to outwit Republicans who were introducing a budget proposal in 2003.
Scarpinato pointed out that the budget bills that Giffords delayed with a quorum call ended up getting introduced less than 24 hours later--and that Giffords promptly left town to attend a Democratic Leadership Council confab in Washington, D.C., missing a chance to sideline the bills in the state Senate Appropriations Committee. Not that it mattered all that much, because the bills ended up getting scrapped when a different budget from the House of Representatives reached the Senate.
Former newscaster Patty Weiss, who is also seeking the Democratic nomination, wasted no time going after Giffords. The same day Scarpinato's story ran, the Weiss campaign released a statement hammering Giffords for leaving town and missing the approps committee votes.
As Weiss spokesman Andrew Myers put it: "The main reason to sit on Appropriations is to play a role in the budget process, and Giffords missed the most important week of the session. Gabby abandoned the governor in the middle of a no-holds-barred budget fight to socialize with people like Sen. (Joe) Lieberman at the DLC conference. Where are her priorities?"
Former state Sen. Sandra Kennedy also weighed in on behalf of the Weiss campaign: "Giffords' quorum call did not affect the budget legislation at all. The only way she could have had a measurable impact on the budget process is by staying in town and voting."
Later in the week, Weiss herself took a shot at Giffords' integrity.
"Gabby released an ad; the ad was wrong; the ad should be pulled," Weiss said in an e-mailed bulletin. "So what did Gabby do? Dug in her heels. ... We cannot afford to send another leader to Washington who manipulates the story."
Giffords responded with her own press release with support from three lawmakers who were serving with her at the time.
State Sen. Bill Brotherton and Rep. Linda Lopez, as well as former Sen. Slade Mead (who was a Republican back then but is now seeking to be state schools chief on the Democratic ticket), say that Giffords effectively slowed the bill down.
"Gabrielle Giffords stood up to the Republican leadership in the Senate when they tried to move a very bad budget bill through a nearly empty Senate chamber after a majority of senators had gone home," Brotherton said. "Giffords' action helped run out the clock on the Republican budget. ... Her advertisement is accurate."
So depending on which version of the story you want to believe, Giffords either temporarily gummed up the legislative works, or she greatly exaggerated her impact. Either way, the Star's headline--"Giffords' ad skirts truth about late-night vote"--is a juicy piece of ammo for a hit piece.
Here's the bigger question: Why is Giffords focusing a campaign spot on a relatively obscure legislative maneuver that took place three years ago?
It's probably because as a left-leaning member of the Democratic caucus, Giffords had little chance of getting any sort of major legislation passed, so she doesn't have much in the way of legislative accomplishments to tout in her ads.
Which brings up another point: Some of Giffords' critics delight in pointing out that she was once registered as a Republican and that she only registered as a Democrat for political advantage.
But there is zero political advantage to being a Democrat in the Arizona Legislature. In fact, Giffords could have gotten a lot more done if she had been a Republican--or even a conservative Democrat who was willing to cut more deals and sell out educators, environmentalists and other lib interests.
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Certainly the most amusing sideshow in city politics this summer has been the effort to develop a massive parcel near Kino Parkway and Interstate 10. KB Home, which recently acquired the property, wants to plop down a subdivision on 240 acres while dishing off chunks of land to Eastbourne Investments Ltd. for commercial development, and the UA for a biosciences park. The shell game starts to get complicated, because the biosciences park deal rests on the ability of the UA to finagle a land swap that allows KB to build homes out at the southeast-side tech park, provided the city can annex the property, which in turn seems to ride on whether potable water will be used on a golf course at the UA's planned resort.
But Eastbourne has been whining that it can't possibly make the Kino deal work without a big-box store that includes a grocery outlet, which violates the city's big-box ordinance. So this is what commercial development has come to: Even the Starbucks and Borders of this world can't make it without a Wally-Mart anchor. And Wally-Mart can't make it unless they get to undercut union grocery shops.
Welcome to your low-wage clerking future, Tucson!
The entire affair has been a comedy of public-relations disasters, with the climax coming last week when an Eastbourne rep told the Star's Rob O'Dell she knew nothing about a memo that, it later turned out, was a collaborative work between Eastbourne officials and Mayor Bob Walkup's office. Big credibility boost there, gang!
Nonetheless, it appears a deal is in the offing: Eastbourne is going to get its variance, allowing the big-box grocery to move in. In exchange, they'll kick in somewhere around a half-million in job-training dollars, which will help people learn how to work cash registers and computers to manage inventory, according to Ward 5 Councilman Steve Leal.
Still to come: How much money the city can squeeze out of KB Homes for school construction.
Voters are on the march already. Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez told The Skinny that as of Monday, Aug. 14, 23,254 voters had asked to vote by mail in the Sept. 12 primary.
Most of those voters are in Congressional District 8, where 10,452 voters have requested Democratic ballots, and 8,678 voters have requested Republican ballots.
Early voting now accounts for about half of the ballots cast in local elections. Much of that is driven by candidates, who invite supporters to fill out cards that the campaigns then drop off en masse at the County Recorder's Office. That way, they can track the early ballots and make sure their literature and phone calls hit at the same time as the early ballots.
Which candidates are delivering the most early-ballot requests this year? Rodriguez says it's Gabby Giffords and Patty Weiss on the Democratic side, and Mike Hellon, with a smattering of Randy Graf, on the GOP side. She hadn't seen anything from Republican Steve Huffman yet--which is kinda odd, given that Huffman has led the fundraising race among the GOP candidates. What's he waiting for? Is he saving all that money for the general election? Because he might not make it that far.
To request your early ballot, call 740-4330.
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Still trying to decide which candidate you're supporting in the Congressional District 8 primary? Arizona Illustrated is hosting debates featuring all the candidates over the next two weeks.
Republican candidates Frank Antenori, Randy Graf, Mike Hellon, Steve Huffman and Mike Jenkins square off this Friday, Aug. 18, in a special one-hour edition of Arizona Illustrated beginning at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT Channel 6. Moderators are Arizona Illustrated's Bill Buckmaster, Skinny scribe Jim Nintzel and Ann Brown of the Arizona Daily Star.
The following Friday, Aug. 25, will feature Democratic candidates Gabrielle Giffords, Bill Johnson, Jeff Latas, Alex Rodriguez, Francine Shacter and Patty Weiss. Moderator Buckmaster will be joined by Mark Kimble of the Tucson Citizen and Ernesto Portillo Jr. of the Arizona Daily Star. The one-hour special will also start at 6:30 p.m.
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A Tale Dark & Grimm (Prebound)
By Adam Gidwitz
Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm (and Grimm-inspired) fairy tales. An irreverent, witty narrator leads us through encounters with witches, warlocks, dragons, and the devil himself. As the siblings roam a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind the famous tales, as well as how to take charge of their destinies and create their own happily ever after. Because once upon a time, fairy tales were "awesome."
"Unlike any children's book I've ever read. It] holds up to multiple rereadings, like the classic I think it will turn out to be." - "New York Times Book Review"
"An audacious debut that's wicked smart and wicked funny." - "Publishers Weekly," starred review
"Addictively compelling." - "School Library Journal," starred review
"Charming and inventive . . . the perfect haunted book." - "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
"One of the year's best children's books." - "The Virginian-Pilot.
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Publication Date: August 18th, 2011
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The white sox is a "strong factor" in the market for star infants Manny Machado according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic ( via Twitter ). Attention has in recent days been focused on Padres, but it seems that it is still a multi-horse race, with Phillies also known to be in the picture too.
It is not terribly surprising to hear that the Chicago organization is still factors in the discussion. How active the club is in its bidding is not clear, but the south sides continue to dangle carrots (in less than subtle ways) in an attempt to lure Machado to Chicago.
1; if only because it would allow much needed leverage to Machado's representatives. With the jockeying around Machado and other unsigned stars Bryce Harper might enter into a final stage, the players' respective agents need all the cards they can get in.
The latest indications are that Padres has offered Machado somewhat larger than $ 240MM and maybe reached $ 280MM. It puts a fairly high bar – perhaps raising the contract level, white Sox was probably dangling a month ago.
Although the White Sox is willing to top Friars, there could be further competition. Rosenthal suggests that all three organizations' leading offices see Machado as better suited than Harper, although owner preferences may be slightly different. Perhaps there is still some room for a late clean-up in the bidding. Harper's ongoing presence and largely overlapping slate of bidders make for another factor in this complicated matchmaking dance.


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Apple has shipped the Mac OS X (from 10.12 Sierra OS X was rebranded macOS) operating system with all Macs since 2002. Following on from big cats, Apple have started naming their OS after iconic locations in California and the versions are usually better known by this rather than their release number. IT Services supports the shipping version of OS X (macOS) as well as the two previous versions, i.e.
Older versions of OS X (10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, 10.3 Panther and 10.2 Jaguar) are only supported on a 'best efforts' basis, and we cannot guarantee to provide any support for legacy versions of the Mac operating system: OS X 10.1, OS 9 and earlier.
Apple has a strict policy on support for older hardware and maintains a list of obsolete models. Hardware is classed as 'obsolete' by Apple when it has been discontinued for more than 7 years and they will not provide any hardware service or parts for it.
From Snow Leopard onwards your Mac provides inbuilt support for connecting to Exchange servers. As a result Mac users are able to use the Oxford Nexus email, shared calendaring and address book facilities. Make sure that you follow the links specific to your operating system to get the most out of using your Mac in Oxford.
Mac users can access Nexus through Outlook for Mac if they are using the Office for Mac 2016 (or 2011) suite.
Nexus can also be accessed via a web browser.
There is plenty of Nexus help documentation including FAQs.
eduroam is an international federation of academic institutions which allows its users to visit other organisations and use the same username and password as they would use at their home institution. Oxford users can use eduroam in Oxford and at other participating organisations via the IT Service Remote Access Account username and password. Instructions on configuring your Mac to use eduroam are available from Connecting to eduroam via Mac, or, here for Lion and older versions.
The IT Services shop allows you to purchase software as a member of the University or for your College or Department. The shop can supply a huge range of software for Macs from Adobe products, to Microsoft Office, to SPSS.
To access the IT Services VPN service you can use the in-built VPN client or for version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and earlier use the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client software.
You can protect your Mac from viruses by installing the University's supported anti-virus software Sophos which can be obtained from the IT Services self-registration service.
Although the threat from viruses and other malware to Mac OS X is low, it is highly recommended that you install anti-virus software for security and to prevent passing on malware that may affect Windows users.
The HFS (Hierarchical File Server) is a centrally funded service providing backup and long-term archive services to Senior Members, Post-graduates and Staff. To use the HFS you will need to install the appropriate TSM client. You will need the same client for Snow Leopard (10.6) or above (an older version does exsist for Leopard).
You can buy everything that you might need for your Mac from the Apple Store for Education which will automatically offer you the discounts already negotiated with Apple when accessed from the University network. The Apple store allows you to shop on your own behalf (as staff or student) or on behalf of the University. If you are buying in volume for your college or department the University has a special deal with Apple that applies the 1000+ price discount when purchasing just 10 or more licenses for the latest versions of OS X/macOS, iWorks, iLife and other products. If you want to take advantage of this deal be sure to place your order through the University's Apple Account Manager.
If your machine is still under warranty, you must take it to an Apple authorised repair service to ensure you don't void the warranty. Once your machine is beyond the warranty period, it is still advisable to use an Apple authorised service. They can supply genuine Apple parts and avoid the risk of non-compatible components causing even more damage. This official Apple repair site will lead you to the nearest service providers.
Apple courses are provided by the IT Learning Centre (ITLC) at 13 Banbury Road. Many of the Centre's classroom courses are applicable to Apple Mac users, with some courses being specific to the Apple platform. In addition, University members have free access to Lynda.com (http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/lynda), a huge library of online courses which includes most Apple appications.
The Service Desk at IT Services is the initial point of contact for all of our front-line user support services. We will endeavor to fix your problem straight away, if we need to see you to resolve the issue, we will arrange a convenient appointment.
You can access the wireless network at Oxford from your iPad or iPhone using eduroam. Configure the in built VPN client and you can access your Nexus account to manage your email, calendars and contacts.
To date, Apple has released new versions of Mac OS X/macOS about every 2 years. Typically, each new version introduces a few features that are not fully backwards compatible. Mac software is regularly updated to use these features, which means that there can be no guarantee that Mac software (Apple or third-party) will run on all versions of the operating system. It is important when upgrading or installing software to check that it is compatible with the version of OS X/macOS that you run on your Mac. This means that we cannot guarantee that all software required in the University will run on all supported versions of OS X/mac OS as this is entirely dependent on the software vendors themselves.


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Q: Is it possible to launch android app with a click of button on a website I am building a website for my own use and was wondering if it is possible to launch a specific android app by clicking a button on the site when it is opened in browser on my phone.

A: You can't open any application unless you know the scheme for the application.
To learn more about Deep Links, check this out. https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking
This is from Android Documentation.

The way it works is pretty simple. In the Android application you need to apply...
<activity
    android:name="com.example.android.GizmosActivity"
    android:label="@string/title_gizmos" >
    <intent-filter android:label="@string/filter_view_http_gizmos">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
        <!-- Accepts URIs that begin with "http://www.example.com/gizmos" -->
        <data android:scheme="http"
              android:host="www.example.com"
              android:pathPrefix="/gizmos" />
        <!-- note that the leading "/" is required for pathPrefix-->
    </intent-filter>
    <intent-filter android:label="@string/filter_view_example_gizmos">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
        <!-- Accepts URIs that begin with "example://gizmos" -->
        <data android:scheme="example"
              android:host="gizmos" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

For example, the code above will look for the http and also the scheme for example
So links could be http://www.gizmos.com OR example://gizmos. But since you are looking to open any application, this would not be possible unless you know their scheme and path.... which would be pretty unlikely.

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Embracing our true selves is intimidating. Think about it: we would much rather showcase a perfect and polished Instagram account than our truest selves. But the first step towards living loved is embracing our true selves and comparing them to the truth of God's Word. Because as daughters of God, our truest selves are found in Him! Each lie you believe about yourself can be combated with a truth, but you must be honest enough with yourself to identify these lies first.
We all have beliefs that are foundational to who we are and how we live, and overtime, these beliefs form our identities. So, what do you believe? Do your beliefs build a strong identity foundation or a weak identity foundation? A strong identity foundation is built off of the truth found in God's Word; essentially, that God is all-good and all-powerful. When we truly believe these truths, we form an identity that is unshakeable, no matter what life throws at us.
Rejection is what happens when we are denied love. Of course, there are varying levels of this, but essentially this is rejection. So what if we lived from the place that we are loved, no matter what earthly love we are denied? Practically, living from the place that we loved means spending time in the place from which we are loved, or more accurately, with the God by whom we are loved. Are you practicing the discipline of living loved every day, by just being with Him?
The result of living loved is having the Holy Spirit with us wherever we go. And in having the Holy Spirit with us, we won't need to be filled by anyone or anything else because God is all that we need. What a beautiful freedom this brings! So, the next time that you're about to set foot out the front door, go first to the God by whom you are loved and let him fill you to overflowing with his love! Note: As daughters of God, we always have the Holy Spirit with us no matter what. But by practicing the disciple of living loved, we become much more aware of His presence in us!
One of the most important principles for living loved is living from the truth of God's Word. This is a key theme! We live in a world where lies targeted at our beliefs and our identities are thrown at us left and right, and if we don't truly know what we say we know, we will eventually give in to these lies. We must be so deeply rooted in the truth of God's Word that the lies of the world won't uproot these beliefs, no matter what it looks like to the rest of the world.
One of the most common places that rejection makes itself known is in a falling out, or even just an argument, with a loved one. When this happens there is a temptation to prove ourselves right, whether out loud or in our hearts. But, we are called to keep pure hearts and to live in harmony with each other. The next time that you find yourself out of harmony with a loved one, instead of fighting against each other, fight for each other and against the true enemy.
In life, there are things that happen that we wish wouldn't. And when these things happen, we have a choice: do we play the victim, or do we continue to live in victory? When we continue to live in the victory that Jesus has already won for us, we are making more room for grace in our hearts. But when we play the victim, we are pushing aside this opportunity. What situation in your life is not quite what you wish it were, but is giving you an opportunity to grow in grace?
Acceptance is powerful. For someone to know that they are accepted and understood is for them to feel that they are loved. Oftentimes, the reason why people don't act "acceptable" or "lovable" is because it has been communicated to them that they are not. The next time that someone acts poorly towards you, instead of walking away in a huff, look into their hearts and consider what lies they may be carrying. How might you graciously help them correct these lies?
Rejection and loneliness tend to go hand in hand, and loneliness feels like being set aside. But, there is a difference between being set aside and set apart. To be set aside is to be rejected, but to be set apart is to be saved for something special. Instead of feeling humiliated, let's be humbled. Instead of feeling lonely, let's find communion with God. Instead of feeling silenced, let's have communication with God. Are you living as one who is set aside, or who is set apart?
We live in a world where making our dreams come true and watching others' dreams come true is easier than ever before. In most ways, this is great! But what we must remember when we're tempted to engage in comparison and coveting is that God created us to live with a mindset of abundance, not scarcity. He made you for a purpose that only you can fulfill! No one can ever take that from you, ever if her dream seems the same as yours.
There are so many things that must be taken into consideration when we feel rejected. While the hurt should be acknowledged, it should not always be accepted for exactly what it feels like. Lysa lists ten things we must remember when rejected, and these ten things pose questions like the following: How might this rejection be an opportunity for something better? How might this rejection be protecting me? How might this rejection make me more into the woman God wants me to be? Again, I encourage you to read the book and take a look at the rest of her thoughts!
Living loved is a battle, because there is an enemy who wants us to live unloved, undesired, unaccepted. But again, this is where knowing the truth of God's Word is oh so important. This truth is our weapon in battling the enemy. What lies are you most susceptible to, and what truths can you battle these lies with? Knowing your answers to these questions is important, because anticipating the battle is winning half the fight.
Transformation is found in personal application, friend. You and I can soak up these truths all we want, but if we don't pray and ask God to help us apply them, we won't be transformed. But fortunately, we serve a God who promises to give us our desires as long as they align with his, and I really believe that the desire to live loved as a daughter of God is a God-glorifying desire. Pray that he will help you to live loved, practice the discipline of living loved, and trust that your application will turn into transformation.
Without pain, there is no healing. It is easy to move through life without dependence on God's strength when there is no pain, but as soon as there is, dependence on God's strength becomes much more real. In these times of pain, the best thing that we can do is run to God in prayer. He is our comforter, our redeemer, our healer, our provider, and the foundation on which we can live loved no matter what. Pain has the ability to truly transform us, but only if we let it.
Sometimes it can feel like our rejections define us. But no. Jesus, and his love for us, defines us. And if we live like we believe that, the times of rejection and heartbreak will simply grow us in this identity. In fact, without these times, we wouldn't grow in this identity. Because of our human nature, we would continue to search for our identities in all the wrong places. Do you have rejections that you live defined by? How can you let Jesus define you instead of that?
No matter whose love we are granted and denied here on this earth, we are wholly loved by the Creator of the Universe. Sometimes, this will help the pain of rejection. And honestly, sometimes, rejection will hurt just as much as it did before. But no matter what, we know the beautiful truth that the total knowing of us and the total acceptance of us is awaiting us in eternity. And if we practice the discipline of living loved here and now, we will get a taste of that total knowing and total acceptance, and be given the opportunity to share it with others.
You are loved. You are accepted. You are delighted in. Go, live loved.
Wow, that's a hard idea to accept. I didn't realize until I read this that I compare my gifts and calling to other girls ALL THE TIME. It seems like everyone wants to do the same job as I do, but they are doing it better. It seems like every Christian girl my age is closer to God than I am, is more disciplined in her study, is turning into a more successful and confident person…and I'm just left being God's "back-up" if one of those other girls doesn't fulfill his plan the way he wants.
But if I believe everything happens for a reason, then God doesn't create "back-ups," and I was made and loved by him before I spoke a word, before I could walk, before I discovered who God was. He had a plan for me then and a place for me in the body of the church, and his purpose for me since then hasn't expired. I have to remember to find the excitement of being an important part of God's plan instead of comparing myself to other girls who have also been called. We all are different, but we are all working toward the same thing, and God wants every single one of us. And that is exciting.


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Price Of Health Care: 'Trumpcare' Could Raise Insurance Costs For Low-Income Americans
By Lydia O'Neal @LydsONeal
The chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, suggested Tuesday that low-income Americans would have to pass up on buying a phone in order to purchase health care under the House Republicans' proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act. Above, Chaffetz is photographed as he questions Planned Parenthood Federation president Cecile Richards (not pictured) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Sept. 29, 2015. Reuters
House Republicans unveiled the American Health Care Act, their replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Monday night, and for many low-income Americans, it will likely be less affordable — maybe even less affordable than an iPhone, as Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, suggested Tuesday morning.
"Maybe rather than getting that new iPhone" Americans "should invest in their own healthcare" - Rep. Jason Chaffetz https://t.co/sxWaRohbEh pic.twitter.com/aEWYikdWiw
— CNN (@CNN) March 7, 2017
For starters, Americans making less than $40,000 would receive hundreds of dollars less in tax credits, as non-profit health care organization the Kaiser Family Foundation pointed out. A 60-year-old with a salary of $20,000, for example, would get $4,143 on average under Obamacare. Under "Trumpcare," as it's come to be known, that person would receive $3,000 on average.
A 60-year-old making $100,000, on the other hand, was awarded no tax credit under the Affordable Care Act. The new bill would give that person $1,500.
How tax credits would change for #Obamacare enrollees under the just-released House Republican replacement plan #AmericanHealthCareAct pic.twitter.com/t491Lk2ibV
— Cynthia Cox (@cynthiaccox) March 7, 2017
Millions of relatively poor adults covered by Medicaid would also pay more under the Republicans' new bill. While Obamacare extended federally funded Medicaid coverage to 14.4 million Americans by raising the maximum income eligibility to 138 percent of the poverty level, or $16,394 per year, the GOP plan would phase this expansion out by 2020. Using a lump sum doled out to the states, it would create a cap for individual federal funding, rather than covering a set percentage of enrollees bills.
The new law would also change an Obamacare provision allowing Americans to create tax-exempt savings accounts holding up to $3,400 for individuals or $6,750 for families, bringing those numbers up to $6,550 and $13,100, respectively. That's good news, but it mainly affects people paying higher income tax rates who aren't living paycheck to paycheck.
At the same time, the bill would slash taxes for high income earners, including a measure taxing insurance executives who make more than $500,000 annually. Analysis by the Brookings Institute found that would quickly drain a trust fund established by the Affordable Care Act to cover costs of care for elderly and disabled people.
Repealing the ACA's tax on high income households and hospitals would exhaust the Medicare Trust fund by 2024 https://t.co/q1V3MEgZiK pic.twitter.com/CLH83ZT75H
— Brookings Econ (@BrookingsEcon) March 6, 2017
Health Care Costs High Due To Drug, Administrative Fees
Americans Want To Keep Coverage For People With Pre-Existing Conditions


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Phillis Wheatley, First published African-American Female Poet
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who tau...
Miguel Hidalgo, Leader Mexican War of Independence
Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence. As a priest, Hidalgo served in a church in Dolores, Mexico. After his arrival, he was shocked by the p...
Benjamin Thompson, Physicist, Inventor
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in...
François Le Vaillant, French Explorer
François Le Vaillant was a French explorer, collector and ornithologist. Hugely popular in his lifetime for his engaging and colourful travel accounts, Le Vaillant is best known today for his spectacular books of ornithology, but his reputa...
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Louis XVI, Guillotined 1793
Louis XVI was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. Suspended and arrested during the insurrection of the 10th of August, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason...
Paul I of Russia
Paul I was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. Paul was born in the Palace of Empress Elisabeth in St Petersburg. He was the son of Elizabeth's heir, her nephew, the Grand Duke Peter, later Emperor Peter III, and his wife, the Gran...
Captain Bligh, Mutiny of the Bounty, 1789
Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after...
Joseph Proust, Chemist
Joseph Louis Proust was a French chemist. Proust's largest accomplishment into the realm of science was disproving Berthollet with the law of definite proportions, which is sometimes also known as Proust's Law. Proust studied copper carbona...
Talleyrand, Prince of Diplomats
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The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, took place on November 1, 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami and fires, which caused near-total destruction of Lisbon in Portu...
Marie Antoinette, Guillotined 1793
Marie Antoinette was Queen Consort of France. Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty and her consort, the Emperor Francis I, she was married to the heir to the French throne (later Louis XVI of France) in order...
Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father USA
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the prim...
Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Inventor of the Pencil
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Redshirt sophomore Adam Mazur struck out a season-high 11 batters over eight inning and the bash brothers – Keaton Anthony and Peyton Williams – both homered, leading the University of Iowa baseball team to a 9-3 series-opening win over Minnesota on Friday night at Duane Banks Field.
Mazur gave up two unearned runs in the first innings on a pair of Hawkeye errors, but the right-hander dealt from there on. The Woodbury, Minnesota, native retired 21 of the next 24 batters he faced. He allowed three runs (one earned) on six hits and didn't walk a batter to improve to 3-2. Iowa moves to 18-12 — a season-high six games over .500 — and 4-3 in Big Ten play.
"I felt good today. I wanted to go out and compete and fill the zone and I was able to do that," said Mazur, who tied a career-high, going eight innings. "I had a lot of great defense behind me backing me up, that made it a lot easier."
Minnesota's 2-0 lead was short-lived as Iowa tied the score at two in the bottom of the first. After Williams reached on a hit-by-pitch, Anthony belted a two-run homer down the left field line to tie the game.
Iowa took the lead for good in the second, scoring four runs on three hits and one Gopher error. Redshirt sophomore Ben Tallman drove in the first run, two runs scored when Minnesota's Boston Merila dropped a fly ball in left field and Williams' RBI single made it 6-2.
After Minnesota scored its second run on a double and Brady Counsell single in the sixth, Williams had an answer. The first baseman connected on his eighth home run, punishing a breaking ball for a solo shot down the right field line that was 104 mph off the bat.
Tallman and Ben Wilmes singled to start the eighth before Williams' one-out sacrifice fly made it 8-3. Anthony followed with an RBI double to center for his third hit and third RBI of the day.
"Mazur was outstanding, he was absolutely dominant," began coach Heller. "We let him down defensively in the first inning, otherwise he gets out of that without giving up a run. He was sharp tonight and dialed in and maintained his velocity. If he wasn't going on a day's less rest and needing to be sharp next week, we would have let him go back out."
Iowa now improves its record to 18-12 overall with a 4-3 mark inside conference play. Minnesota still leads the All-Time series 185-123. Next up will be the Saturday rendition with first pitch between the Hawkeyes and the Gophers set for 2:05 pm. It's Have A Catch Saturday.
Season-High Run Total Propels Iowa To Big Win in Milwaukee


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Ex-Daiwa Securities' Rick Fulton Appointed CFO of ayondo
Key hire amid reverse takeover negotiations aimed to get ayondo listed on SGX.
Steven Hatzakis | Technology ( Retail FX ) | Thursday, 19/05/2016 | 12:40 GMT+2 2016-05-19T10:40:22+00:00 2016-05-19T13:39:53+00:00
…Rick will play a crucial role in the planned listing of ayondo in Singapore
Zurich-based Investment firm ayondo Holding AG, with regulated entities in London and the Frankfurt-based social trading provider ayondo GmbH, today announced the appointment of Rick Fulton to the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He will join the company's executive committee as the firm aims to be listed in Singapore.
Mr. Fulton joins ayondo as CFO after leaving his role at Daiwa Securities where he was managing director and regional CFO for Asia and Oceania, as per the announcement. According to a LinkedIn profile, Mr. Fulton was with Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong from April 2010 through March 2016, nearly six years. Mr. Fulton brings over twenty years experience in the securities industry and previously held senior positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank, and AMN AMBRO.
RTO target: Starland Holdings Limited
Last month the group revealed that it was in advanced negotiations for a reverse takeover (RTO) transaction with a company listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), which could result in it becoming publicly traded in Singapore. ayondo is valued at $155m, as per related coverage by Finance Magnates. The company set up an office in Singapore several years ago under the name ayondo Asia PTE Ltd.
According to regulatory filings with the SGX, property developer and real estate investment firm Starland Holdings Limited, under ticker STHL, entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ayondo on April 13th regarding a proposed acquisition, which was the same day that ayondo announced the RTO.
Reverse Takeover eyes SGX
Rick Fulton
Source: LinkedIn
The company describes itself as a fintech firm and pioneer in social trading, according to the announcement, and ayondo GmbH – which represents the core holding of the group – offers its social trading services as a tied agent of DonauCapital Wertpapier AG.
Meanwhile, the execution of the trades and brokerage side of the business is handled by ayondo's FCA-regulated entity Ayondo Markets Limited in London.
According to sources, the company focuses on its B2C business in regions such as Europe, while in Asia its B2B efforts are utilized to partner with regulated entities such as in Singapore. It can then offer out social trading services from ayondo to its end clients.
"I am very pleased that Rick is joining the Executive Committee of ayondo. With his extensive experience as a financial services industry CFO, especially in the Asian region, Rick will play a crucial role in the planned listing of ayondo in Singapore," said Robert Lempka, CEO of ayondo Holding AG, commenting in the company's statement regarding the hire.
Tags: IPO / singapore / social trading / switzerland
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When I began homeschooling my own kids 6 years ago, I wanted to incorporate an art history element into our curriculum, and I couldn't find anything that I liked! Everything I came across was either fun, but light on learning, OR really educational, but not very fun!
Having a background in art and art history myself, I decided to create my own lesson plans.
We had so much fun doing Jackson Pollock inspired drip art, painting flowers like Georgia O'Keeffe, and learning about Andy Warhol as we made our own silkscreens. These lessons quickly became everyone's favorite part of our homeschool routine! I realized that other kids (and moms!) could benefit from these fun projects, too!
And so, Art History Kids was born.
This is really the art history curriculum I was searching for six years ago, and I'm so proud to bring fun and educational activities to your homeschool.
The Studio is Art History Kids monthly membership program. We study a new topic or theme each month, and you get easy to implement lesson plans delivered to you every Monday.
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If we all shipped more stuff, we'd be more successful. It's one of Seth Godin's mantras – "Ship it!". So why don't we? Because we are doing too much stuff. Our focus is all over the place.
We'd actually ship more if we did less. If you only have one project to work on, then you have complete focus. There's nowhere to hide, your progress is evident. You ship, or you are going nowhere.
OK, so that's not realistic for most people or businesses. Even in a start-up, there's a myriad of things that have to be worked upon. But we all allow projects and activities to accumulate. We let our day get filled up with stuff. So it's time to weed out those projects and get back to the vital few.
Projects have a life of their own. You would be amazed how they keep going when the reason for starting them has been forgotten. It was a great idea when you started it but what impact is it going to deliver today?
Does it have a completion date?
This is a sign of a project out of control. If you don't when it's going to finish, how can you know what resources it will take? Or when it will deliver the benefits? This will tell you straight away that it is not relevant, or badly managed, or probably both.
Often, we start a project because we want what it will deliver, not because we know we can achieve it. So ask the hard questions – can it really deliver what it was intended to? Do we have the skills, knowledge and talent to pull it off? Or are we just fooling ourselves?
The vital few projects are the ones that are critical to the business, they underpin the business plan, the sales targets, the financial plan. If it doesn't affect the numbers at the end of the year, or deliver a specific business objective, then you don't need it.
So now you have a list of projects that are irrelevant, out of control, unrealistic and unnecessary. Easy. Now comes the hard bit. You just have to stop them. Now.
There will be loads of reasons why you should keep them – we've put so much into it; it's nearly there; it doesn't need much resource; it's your favourite project because you started it; it might be the one that delivers a big, new client.
You have to ignore these siren calls and emotional hooks and kill them all off. Even your little pet ones. Or they will continue divert you from doing the one thing that will make you successful. Shipping the ones that matter.
Start doing less. Start shipping more.
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Stage Chat / Tours /
Same Time, Next Year new UK tour and casting announced
Posted January 4, 2022 12:29 by Josh Darvill
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Bernard Slade's Same Time, Next Year will embark on a new UK tour from January 2022.
London Classic Theatre has announced dates and casting for the production of the two-hander, which originally ran on Broadway in 1975.
Michael Cabot will direct Kieran Buckeridge (George) and Sarah Kempton (Doris) with the tour opening at Malvern Theatres on 26 January.
The show will then visit Winchester, Mold, Bury St Edmunds, Ilfracombe, Bracknell, Derby, Poole and Eastbourne, concluding at New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 16 April 2022.
Artistic Director Michael Cabot said: "We're delighted to be starting rehearsals for this wonderful play. Same Time, Next Year is a charming, nostalgic romantic comedy from the 1970s, with a witty, engaging script.
"It's our first new show in two years, so it's been fantastic to be back in design and costume meetings as part of our pre-production. One of the big challenges of this play is the timeframe, which runs from 1951 to 1975, and convincingly showing the ever-changing fashions and styles as the years go by. Designer Bek Palmer has been ingenious in bringing these very different decades to life."
Lighting designer Matthew Green completes the creative team.
Doris and George meet in 1951, a chance encounter in a Californian hotel that leads to a passionate one-night stand. Both are married to other people, but, soon aware that this might be the start of something, they promise to meet 12 months later. So begins a romantic love affair that lasts 25 years.
The play charts their lives through the ups and downs of parenthood, career highs and lows as well as the shifting fashions and morals of the passing decades.
Bernard Slade paints a bittersweet, nostalgic and funny portrait of two likeable protagonists who find themselves in the most unusual of long-term relationships.
Same Time, Next Year tour dates and venues
Malvern Theatres
26 – 29 January
www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Theatre Royal Winchester
2 – 5 February
www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk
Theatr Clwyd
8 – 12 February
www.theatrclwyd.com
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
15 – 19 February
www.theatreroyal.org
The Landmark, Ilfracombe
www.landmark-ilfracombe.com
South Hill Park, Bracknell
www.southhillpark.org.uk
Derby Theatre
8 – 12 March
www.derbytheatre.co.uk
Lighthouse, Poole
25 – 26 March
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
5 – 9 April
www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk/venue/devonshire-park-theatre
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
12 – 16 April
www.newvictheatre.org.uk
More on: Kieran Buckeridge Same Time Next Year Sarah Kempton Tours


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Basics of Android Debugging
By Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey
Using LogCat
Seeing a Common Mistake
Testing Views
Tracing Code
Effective debugging techniques are an essential skill for today's Android developers. Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey, authors of Android Wireless Application Development, 2nd Edition, provide a walk-through of Android application debugging techniques and the logic behind them. This crash course in Android debugging is designed to help any developer new to Android SDK and related tools get up to speed faster and resolve defects more effectively.
Android Wireless Application Development, 2nd Edition
An Android developer wears many hats: designer, code monkey, and, inevitably, troubleshooter. Bugs in code are inevitable—so it's important to know now to quickly and effectively track them down and fix them, whether you created the bugs initially or otherwise. In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of Android debugging.
You should have the Android SDK and tools installed, including Eclipse and the Android plug-in available for Eclipse. You should also be comfortable with the basics of Java, Android, and Eclipse development. That is, you should know how to import or create Android projects, understand Java syntax, and have a basic understanding of how Android applications are structured. For example, you shouldn't be confused by a phrase like "Look at the onCreate() method of your Activity class." We also expect that you have Android devices or configured AVD upon which to debug.
The best way to learn how to debug an Android application is to simply jump in and debug. To make sure we're all debugging the same application, download the open source sample application we've provided for this tutorial. You can either use Subversion to synchronize the repository or download the archive file that contains the source. Either way, import the project into Eclipse and be ready to debug this buggy application.
Using Perspectives in Eclipse
The DDMS Perspective, shown in Figure 1, is integrated into Eclipse through the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in. This perspective is incredibly handy, as it combines many debugging panes specially designed for Android debugging. When you're debugging, you will usually switch between the DDMS perspective and the Debug perspective. Here you'll find panes such as LogCat and other useful debugging utilities integrated into Eclipse. You can use the Debug perspective to set code breakpoints, inspect variables, and step through code. You can use the DDMS perspective to attach to specific processes on an emulator or device, inspect the heap, take screenshots, and explore files on the device or emulator, among other tasks. All of these tasks are invaluable for debugging.
Figure 1 DDMS in action
Kotlin for Android App Development
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Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
By Josh Skeen, David Greenhalgh


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